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Re: There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish

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This may be a hot take, but I love the un-usable for business licenses and the fun multiple lowest-to-highest paid worker and ethical restrictions (No use in weapons, for example) licenses, but not for their direct restrictions but rather because almost no large business will ever want to touch them, but small players and individuals don't care. Those licenses let me say "This is open to the individual and small busi…

I agree. We have a license monoculture despite whatever irrelevant number of licenses people say exist.

Create real terms. Create demands for your work. Charge something. Charge nothing but require volunteer hours. Do something different. Do something meaningful.

If you’re a small open source author you can afford to be creative. Most of the time no one’s going to give you a cent in the first place. There are ten thousand and one open source projects who haven’t made even $100.00.

You owe no one.

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